Carrison

Carrie Fisher on Her Affair with Married Harrison Ford: “What Happens on Location Is Permitted”

Carrie Fisher titillated Star Wars fans far and wide after excerpts from her new memoir, The Princess Diarist, revealed what they’d suspected for years. The pages, which come from her 40-year-old diary, detail the “intense” affair she had with Harrison Ford while filming Star Wars: A New Hope. Nevertheless, the excitement that Fisher’s confession has generated is a bit of a head-scratcher for the actress, as she told Savannah Guthrie of the Today show on Monday. Fisher confirmed that Princess Leia and Han Solo of the franchise that launched a thousand franchises had indeed gotten together (albeit very briefly) after fans were just sitting around and wondering for four decades, and she’s surprised by all the headlines. Star Wars relationship theorists even called them “Carrison,” Fisher said.

The pair was on set in London at the time of the affair, and Ford was married to Mary Marquardt. As the diaries reveal, they began their tryst after a birthday party for the film’s director, George Lucas. “When you’re on location—this is something I discovered—everything is permitted,” Fisher explained to Guthrie. We’re hereby launching a movement to replace “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” with “When you’re on location, everything is permitted” as the battle cry of ne'er-do-wells everywhere.

Though Ford did get a copy of the book before it went to print, Fisher said, “He’s incredibly private; I feel really bad for doing that to him.” That’s also why she didn’t offer too many nitty-gritty details about the three-month-long affair between the 33-year-old married father of two and herself, the 19-year-old ingenue. Fisher signs off by gesturing to Guthrie, who is visibly pregnant, and saying “Congratulations on the sex,” which is the second catchphrase coined in the five-minute clip.